This morning, wasting my time on the Internet and shopping for an helical replacement cutting head for my Ridgid R4330 planer, I found this brand of helical jointer/planer replacement cutting heads that I never heard off before:
Global Tooling.

The design seems to be a true helical design, unlike the Accu-Head, very similar the the Shelix head and the price may be a little cheaper than the Shelix. I thought that you might be interested.Bertrand

-- Bert

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Bert, that may actually be a Byrd Tool head. The instructions they offer are the Byrd instructions (installation) and the cutters have the same tool mark as those used by Byrd. I’d bet they are simply reselling them, and if they are cheaper they would really make it a win.

I’m not saying anything one way or the other, but the fact that they’re using what amounts to cut-rate hosting and don’t even have their own domain does not exactly fill me with confidence. The prices don’t look like they’re that much less than other sources to me…

“but the fact that they’re using what amounts to cut-rate hosting and don’t even have their own domain does not exactly fill me with confidence” What does this mean?I would have no problem buying from this company instead of Byrd Tools,they look just as serious and I always takes risks.

The first link you posted was not globaltooling.net, and that’s what made me a little suspicious.

I looked back into their site a little more, and discovered that the site isn’t secured by SSL. I added something to my cart and started the checkout process, and was not directed onto a secure site at any point. I’d never order from a site that doesn’t secure personal information. Feel free to do so, but don’t be surprised if bad things happen. Just basic common sense.

For the information of those who might be interested: I have been in contact with John at Global Tooling. He tells me that Global tooling makes its own heads and in addition sale Shelix heads.He will give me price for a head for my Ridgid planer. I know how much Byrd Tools want for one.